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Fact-based story of undercover DEA agent Enrique Camarena who, while stationed in Guadalajara, uncovered a massive marijuana operation in Northern Mexico that led to his death and a remarkable investigation of corruption within the Mexican government.

At least four of the principal actors in Drug Wars: The Camarena Story later starred in the Academy Award-winning film Traffic, a film that also deals with the subject of the ongoing drug trade between the United States and Mexico. In a somewhat interesting reversal of roles, in Drug Wars actors Miguel Ferrer and Steven Bauer both play DEA agents while Benicio del Toro and Eddie Velez play drug traffickers; in Traffic, Ferrer and Bauer both play drug traffickers, while del Toro and Velez play a Mexican federal narcotics agent and a DEA agent.

In his review for The New York Times, John J. O'Connor wrote, "Perhaps not surprisingly, these amoral entrepreneurs provide some of the film's juicier roles. Especially effective is Benicio del Toro as the young, illiterate and flaky Rafael Caro-Quintero".[1] In his review for USA Today, Matt Roush wrote, "For a Michael Mann production, there's surprisingly little flash to Drug Wars. Some interesting camera work to be sure, including the video bits and some heightened use of slow motion, but the miniseries' chief strength is its grit, its anger".[2] Craig MacInnis, in his review for the Toronto Star, wrote, "Interspersed with U.S. network news footage of the real Camarena incident in '85, the dramatic scenes in Drug Wars are never anything less than convincing - just as good propaganda should be".[3]

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Michael Mann
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Michael Kenneth Mann is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer of film and television. His most acclaimed works are the crime film Heat and the docudrama The Insider, Mann was born on February 5,1943 in Chicago, Illinois, of Jewish ancestry, the son of grocers Esther and Jack Mann. He received a B. A. in English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he developed interests in history, philosophy and it was at this time that he saw Stanley Kubricks Dr. Strangelove and fell in love with movies. So thats what Kubrick meant, aside from the fact that Strangelove was a revelation and his daughter Ami Canaan Mann is also a film director and producer. Mann later moved to London in the mid 1960s to go to school in cinema. He went on to receive a degree at the London Film School. He spent seven years in the United Kingdom going to school and then working on commercials along with contemporaries Alan Parker, Ridley Scott. Mann returned to United States after divorcing his first wife in 1971 and he went on to direct a road trip documentary,17 Days Down the Line. Three years later, Hawaii Five-O veteran Robert Lewin gave Mann a shot, Mann wrote four episodes of Starsky and Hutch and the pilot episode for Vega$. Around this time, he worked on a show called Police Story with cop-turned-novelist Joseph Wambaugh, Police Story concentrated on the detailed realism of a real cops life and taught Mann that first-hand research was essential to bring authenticity to his work. His first feature movie was a special called The Jericho Mile. It won the Emmy for best MOW in 1979 and the DGA Best Director award and his television work also includes being the executive producer on Miami Vice and Crime Story. Contrary to popular belief, he was not the creator of these shows and they were produced by his production company and his cinematic influence is felt throughout each show in terms of casting and style. Mann is now known primarily as a film director. In terms of sound, he is known for unusual scores, dante Spinotti is a frequent cinematographer of Manns pictures. His next film The Keep, a thriller set in Nazi-occupied Romania, was an uncharacteristic choice. Though it was a flop, the film has since attained cult status amongst fans. He gained widespread recognition in 1992 for his adaptation of James Fenimore Coopers novel into the epic film Last of the Mohicans

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Steven Bauer
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Steven Bauer is a Cuban-American actor. Born Esteban Ernesto Echevarría Samson in Havana, Cuba, the son of Lillian Samson Agostini, a schoolteacher, and Esteban Echevarría, Bauers maternal grandfather was a Jewish refugee from Germany, and Bauers maternal grandmother was a Cuban of partial Italian ancestry. His stage surname comes from his maternal great-grandmother, Bauers parents fled from Cuba to Miami, Florida, on July 4,1960, following Fidel Castros Revolution. He graduated from Miami Coral Park High School in 1974, Bauers first substantial role was in the PBS bilingual sitcom ¿Qué Pasa, USA. Playing the teenage son of a Cuban exile family in Miami and he also appeared in the 1980 TV miniseries From Here to Eternity. He was credited in these and a few other projects as Rocky Echevarría. In 1981, Bauer starred in the television movie Shes in the Army Now and they both moved to New York City and stayed at Ray Liottas apartment, while Liotta moved to Los Angeles and stayed at theirs. Both Bauer and Griffith studied under famed acting teacher Stella Adler, during this time he briefly adopted the stage name Rocky Echevarria, before settling on Steven Bauer. Bauer was given the role of Manny Ribera, the part played by George Raft in the original 1932 version, in the 1983 movie Scarface, even though he was a relatively unknown actor at the time. The producers of Scarface were convinced that he was right for the role based on his strong audition and his performance drew a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In 1986 he had two important roles. Frank Sigliano in the Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines cop comedy Running Scared, the Sword of Gideon script was the basis for Steven Spielbergs later film Munich, which follows the same storyline and borrows heavily from the Sword of Gideon story and script. In 1990 Bauer played the role of Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Kiki Camarena in the television miniseries Drug Wars, The Camarena Story alongside Benicio Del Toro and Craig T. Nelson. That same year, Bauer took over the lead of the television show Wiseguy from Ken Wahl for the fourth and final season. Since then, Bauer has made his career primarily, though not exclusively, in action films and he also made an appearance in the video game spin-off Scarface, The World Is Yours, playing drug dealer The Sandman. In 2007 he appeared on an episode of Burn Notice, in 2011, Bauer appeared on the show Breaking Bad playing Mexican drug lord Don Eladio. He stars with Julianne Michelle in the feature film Awakened, a supernatural thriller touching on Life After Death and he currently appears as ex-Mossad agent turned private investigator Avi in the Showtime series Ray Donovan. Bauer married Melanie Griffith on September 8,1981, the couple had a son, Alexander Bauer, on August 22,1985, before divorcing in 1989

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Benicio del Toro
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Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez is a Puerto Rican actor. He won an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award and he has also portrayed the Collector in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Del Toro was born on February 19,1967, in San Germán, Puerto Rico, to Gustavo Adolfo Del Toro Bermúdez and Fausta Genoveva Sánchez Rivera, many of del Toros relatives are involved in Puerto Ricos legal system. He has a brother, Gustavo, who is the Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. He had a Catalan paternal great-grandfather and a Basque maternal great-grandmother and he spent most of his infancy in Santurce, a barrio within San Juan. Del Toro, whose childhood nicknames were Skinny Benny and Beno, was raised a Roman Catholic and attended Academia del Perpetuo Socorro, when del Toro was nine years old, his mother died of hepatitis. At age 12, he moved with his father and brother to Mercersburg, Pennsylvania and he spent his adolescence and attended high school there. After graduation, del Toro followed the advice of his father and pursued a degree at the University of California. Del Toro began to surface in small roles during the late 1980s, playing mostly thugs and drug dealers on programs such as Miami Vice. He appeared in Madonnas 1987 music video La Isla Bonita as a background character sitting on a car, Del Toro continued to appear in movies including The Indian Runner, China Moon, Christopher Columbus, The Discovery, Money for Nothing, Fearless and Swimming with Sharks. His career gained momentum in 1995 with his performance in The Usual Suspects. The role won him an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male, Del Toro also shared the screen with Robert De Niro in the big budget thriller The Fan, in which he played Juan Primo, a charismatic Puerto Rican baseball star. He subsequently starred opposite Alicia Silverstone in Excess Baggage, which Silverstone produced. For Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the 1998 film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompsons famous book, he gained more than 40 lbs. to play Dr. Gonzo, Thompsons lawyer and drug-fiend cohort. The surrealistic film, directed by Terry Gilliam, has earned a following over the years. Returning from a hiatus after Fear and Loathing, del Toro gained a mainstream audience in 2000 with a string of performances in four high-profile films. First up was The Way of the Gun, a yarn that reunited him with The Usual Suspects screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie. A few months later, he stood out among an ensemble cast in Steven Soderberghs Traffic

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Treat Williams
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Richard Treat Williams is a Golden Globe and Emmy award-nominated American actor and childrens book author who has appeared on film, stage and television. He first became known for his starring role in the 1979 film Hair. From 2002 to 2006, he was the lead of the television series Everwood and was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards, Williams was born in Rowayton, Connecticut, the son of Marian, an antiques dealer, and Richard Norman Williams, a corporate executive. Williams played football in high school and he graduated from the Kent School in Connecticut and Franklin and Marshall College. Williams made his debut in the 1975 thriller film Deadly Hero. The following year he played a supporting actor in The Ritz and he came to world attention in 1979, when he starred as George Berger in the Miloš Forman film Hair, which was based on the 1967 Broadway musical. Williams was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role in the film and he was featured in the February 1980 edition of Playgirl magazine. He has gone on to appear in over 75 films and several television series, notable films include,1941, Once Upon A Time In America, Dead Heat, Things to Do in Denver When Youre Dead, and Deep Rising. Williams second Golden Globe nomination was for his role in Sidney Lumets Prince of the City. His third nomination was for his performance as Stanley Kowalski in the presentation of A Streetcar Named Desire. In 1996, he was nominated for a Best Actor Emmy Award by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for his work in The Late Shift, Williams career includes numerous stage roles. He won a Drama League Award for his work in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheims Follies, other notable Broadway shows include Grease, the Sherman Brothers Over Here. Once in a Lifetime, Pirates of Penzance and Love Letters and he premiered the Los Angeles production of Love Letters and appeared in War Letters at the Canon Theatre in Los Angeles. Williams played leading role as Dr. Andrew Brown in the WB television series Everwood, although the shows ratings were never spectacular, it won critical acclaim and had a devoted following. Williams received two SAG Award nominations for his role on the show, Williams has made several guest appearances on the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters as David Morton, a friend and potential suitor of Sally Fields character. He starred in the short-lived series Heartland on TNT as Nathaniel Grant and he also starred in a Lifetime movie, Staircase Murders, which aired April 15,2007. Williams starred in a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, Beyond the Blackboard, with his former Everwood co-star and it was first broadcast on CBS on April 24,2011. Williams appears in the CBS television pilot Peachtree Lines as Mayor Lincoln Rylan, the serial is an examination of political, social, and cultural issues in Atlanta

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Craig T. Nelson
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Craig Theodore Nelson is an American actor. Incredible in the 2004 film The Incredibles and he also starred in the TV series Parenthood. Nelson was born in Spokane, Washington, the son of Vera Margaret, a dancer, and Armand Gilbert Nelson, Nelson has a brown belt in karate. In high school, Nelson was the quarterback of the football team and he attended Central Washington University studying criminology as he wanted to work for the CIA. He dropped out and went to Yakima Valley Community College to study English literature and he spent a semester abroad studying communications at Northfielde Universität Herisau in Switzerland. He eventually received a scholarship to the University of Arizona. Nelson did summer stock theatre in Cripple Creek, Colorado and he then moved to the west, where he worked as a security guard at a soap factory in the day and took acting classes at night. Nelson began his business career as a comedian. He was an member of The Groundlings comedy troupe. Nelson, Barry Levinson, and Rudy De Luca formed their own team and were regular performers at The Comedy Store. Nelson had different jobs during that time including janitor, plumber, carpenter, surveyor and he returned to acting five years later. He was featured as an attorney who opposes Al Pacino in the 1979 film. And Justice for All. He has appeared in other motion pictures and had featured roles in five television shows. Coach ran from 1989 to 1997, with Nelson starring as college football coach Hayden Fox and he voiced Mr. Incredible in the 2004 animated film The Incredibles. He reprised the role again in the game, Kinect Rush, A Disney-Pixar Adventure. During the early 1990s, he made a guest appearance in the video for country singer Garth Brookss song We Shall Be Free. Nelson made a three-episode guest appearance on CSI, NY as a nemesis to Gary Sinise’s Taylor and his most recent films include 2009s The Proposal as Ryan Reynolds skeptical father and 2010s The Company Men as a greedy CEO. From 2010 to 2015, he starred in the television show Parenthood as Zeek Braverman, Nelson stated in an interview with Glenn Beck that he had been on welfare and collected food stamps

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Raymond J. Barry
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Raymond John Barry is an American film, television, and stage actor. Raymond John Barry was born in Hempstead, New York and he has been married to writer Robyn Mundell for the past twenty years. Together they have four children, Oona, Raymond, Liam and his father, Raymond Barry, worked in sales. His mother, Barbara Constance Barry, was also an actor, known professionally as B. Her breakthrough and final role, in 2001, after a career of small or cameo appearances in films, was in the film L. I. E. as Anne Harrigan, the mother of a Long Island pedophile. Barrys mother was of Canadian, Irish, and Swedish descent, a three-letter athlete at Lynbrook High School on Long Island, Barry graduated from Brown University in 1962. While there, he earned his degree in Philosophy, afterwards, he completed the Yale Drama School. Before appearing in films he appeared in more than 75 plays, Barry may be best known for his role as Ron Kovics father in the Academy Award-winning film Born on the Fourth of July. He also played Pa Cox in Walk Hard, The Dewey Cox Story, other films in which he appeared include, Dead Man Walking, Cool Runnings, K2, The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Falling Down, and Training Day. He also appeared as Jack Shephards grandfather in Lost, as Fox Mulders congressional patron, Senator Richard Matheson, in The X-Files and he had a recurring role on Justified as Arlo Givens, the father of main character Raylan Givens

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Molten Man
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Molten Man is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #28, Mark Raxton was born in New York City. He was a scientist who could not wait to use his skills to become rich, Raxton and Smythe developed an experimental new liquid metallic alloy for the Spider-Slayers from a radioactive meteor, but Raxton attempted to steal it and sell it for his own profit. In the ensuing fight with Smythe in the laboratory, Raxton spilled the liquid all over himself, his skin absorbing it. Fearing for his life, Raxton ran for the nearest hospital, only to discover that the alloy had changed him for the better when he punched an irate motorists hood. Realizing the great potential his new abilities afforded him, Raxton, Peter Parker, as Spider-Man, was forced to nearly miss his high school graduation to stop the Molten Mans first crime spree. He was released from jail before long, only to continue his criminal activities, however, he was once again defeated by Spider-Man. Eventually, his body begins to give off heat and to consume itself. His metal skin became molten, and he stole meteor fragments from a museum to attempt a cure, an encounter with Spider-Man resulted in his submergence in the polluted East River, which temporarily reversed the deterioration. After a few encounters with Spider-Man, it was revealed that Peters friend Liz Allan was Raxtons stepsister. Raxton broke into a company to steal chemicals which would reverse his condition permanently. When the procedure failed, he went berserk and kidnapped Liz, Liz was saved by Spider-Man, but Molten Man was buried beneath the laboratory. He later resurfaced at the site and once again sought his sister out. Spider-Man prevented the Molten Man from hurting her, knocking him into a pool, thus extinguishing his flames. He was then taken to the Vault, Raxton realized that his stepsister was the only member of his family who had not abandoned him. He was eventually released from the Vault and approached Liz once again, Spider-Man misunderstood his intentions and battled him once more. Reconciled with Raxton, Liz and her husband Harry Osborn gave Raxton a job as head of security at Osborn Industries, Molten Man later teamed up with Spider-Man and the second Green Goblin against Tombstone and Hammerhead. Molten Man was then kidnapped along with Liz, Normie Osborn, and Spider-Man by Harry Osborn, Molten Man was saved by Spider-Man

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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown

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Time (magazine)
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Time is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It was founded in 1923 and for decades was dominated by Henry Luce, a European edition is published in London and also covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong, the South Pacific edition, which covers Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, is based in Sydney, Australia. In December 2008, Time discontinued publishing a Canadian advertiser edition, Time has the worlds largest circulation for a weekly news magazine, and has a readership of 26 million,20 million of which are based in the United States. As of 2012, it had a circulation of 3.3 million making it the eleventh most circulated magazine in the United States reception room circuit, as of 2015, its circulation was 3,036,602. Richard Stengel was the editor from May 2006 to October 2013. Nancy Gibbs has been the editor since October 2013. Time magazine was created in 1923 by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, the two had previously worked together as chairman and managing editor respectively of the Yale Daily News. They first called the proposed magazine Facts and they wanted to emphasize brevity, so that a busy man could read it in an hour. They changed the name to Time and used the slogan Take Time–Its Brief and it set out to tell the news through people, and for many decades the magazines cover depicted a single person. More recently, Time has incorporated People of the Year issues which grew in popularity over the years, notable mentions of them were Barack Obama, Steve Jobs, Matej Turk, etc. The first issue of Time was published on March 3,1923, featuring Joseph G. Cannon, the retired Speaker of the House of Representatives, on its cover, a facsimile reprint of Issue No. 1, including all of the articles and advertisements contained in the original, was included with copies of the February 28,1938 issue as a commemoration of the magazines 15th anniversary. The cover price was 15¢ On Haddens death in 1929, Luce became the dominant man at Time, the Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise 1923–1941. In 1929, Roy Larsen was also named a Time Inc. director, J. P. Morgan retained a certain control through two directorates and a share of stocks, both over Time and Fortune. Other shareholders were Brown Brothers W. A. Harriman & Co. the Intimate History of a Changing Enterprise 1957–1983. According to the September 10,1979 issue of The New York Times, after Time magazine began publishing its weekly issues in March 1923, Roy Larsen was able to increase its circulation by utilizing U. S. radio and movie theaters around the world. It often promoted both Time magazine and U. S. political and corporate interests, Larsen next arranged for a 30-minute radio program, The March of Time, to be broadcast over CBS, beginning on March 6,1931

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Dennis Farina
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Dennis Farina was an Italian-American actor of film and television and former Chicago police officer. He was an actor, often typecast as a mobster or police officer. His most known roles are those of mobster Jimmy Serrano in the comedy Midnight Run. He starred on television as Lieutenant Mike Torello on Crime Story and he also hosted and narrated a revived version of Unsolved Mysteries. His last major role was in HBOs Luck, which premiered on January 29,2012. Farina was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Sicilian-American parents Joseph Farina, a doctor and his father was from Villalba, Sicily. He had three brothers and three sisters, before becoming an actor, Farina served three years in the United States Army, followed by 18 years in the Chicago Police Departments burglary division, from 1967 to 1985. Farina began working for director Michael Mann as a police consultant, Farina moonlighted as an actor in Chicago-based films and theater before Mann chose him for his Crime Story series, which aired on NBC from 1986-88. Farina played mobster Albert Lombard in Manns previous hit television show and he later starred as the title character in Buddy Faro, a 1998 private-detective series on CBS. Two of his movie characters are Jimmy Serrano, the mob boss from Midnight Run, and Ray Bones Barboni. Farina also played FBI Agent Jack Crawford in the first Hannibal Lecter crime film and he played a baseball manager in Little Big League and a basketball coach in Eddie. In a leading-man role and a departure from his parts, Farina co-starred with Bette Midler in a romantic comedy, That Old Feeling. In 1998s Saving Private Ryan, Farina plays a role as the battalion commander who advises Captain John Miller of the mission which forms the basis of the films plot. Farina had a flair for comedy and he won an American Comedy Award for his performance in Get Shorty and starred in a television sitcom, In-Laws, from 2002 until 2003. He appeared in 2002s Stealing Harvard, a comedy in which he played a tough-talking and he also had a comic role opposite Ed Harris and Helen Hunt in the HBO production of Empire Falls in 2005 and opposite Alan Rickman in 2008s Bottle Shock. His distinctive voice was put to use in early 2005, when Farina provided the voice of aging boxer-turned-superhero Wildcat on Justice League Unlimited, in 2004, the producers of the television series Law & Order hired Farina as Det. Joe Fontana, following the departure of longtime cast member Jerry Orbach, Farina stayed on the show for two seasons, but his character was not as popular as Orbachs Det. His role of Detective Lt. Mike Torello on Crime Story was as a Chicago police officer, farinas Law & Order character, Detective Fontana, worked for Chicago Homicide before his transfer to the NYPD

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Drug Enforcement Administration
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The Drug Enforcement Administration is a United States federal law enforcement agency under the U. S. Department of Justice, tasked with combating drug smuggling and use within the United States. S. It has sole responsibility for coordinating and pursuing U. S. drug investigations both domestic, and abroad, the Drug Enforcement Administration was established on July 1,1973, by Reorganization Plan No.2 of 1973, signed by President Richard Nixon on July 28. It proposed the creation of a federal agency to enforce the federal drug laws as well as consolidate and coordinate the governments drug control activities. Congress accepted the proposal, as they were concerned with the availability of drugs. From the early 1970s, DEA headquarters was located at 1405 I Street NW in downtown Washington, however, then–Attorney General Edwin Meese determined that the headquarters had to be located in close proximity to the Attorney Generals office. Thus, in 1989, the relocated to 600–700 Army-Navy Drive in the Pentagon City area of Arlington, Virginia. On April 19,1995, Timothy McVeigh attacked the Alfred P, security measures include hydraulic steel roadplates to enforce standoff distance from the building, metal detectors, and guard stations. In February 2003, the DEA established a Digital Evidence Laboratory within its Office of Forensic Sciences, the DEA is headed by an Administrator of Drug Enforcement appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the U. S. Senate. The Administrator reports to the Attorney General through the Deputy Attorney General, the Administrator is assisted by a Deputy Administrator, the Chief of Operations, the Chief Inspector, and three Assistant Administrators. Other senior staff include the financial officer and the Chief Counsel. The Administrator and Deputy Administrator are the only presidentially-appointed personnel in the DEA, DEAs headquarters is located in Arlington, Virginia across from the Pentagon. It maintains its own DEA Academy located on the United States Marine Corps base at Quantico and it maintains 21 domestic field divisions with 227 field offices and 86 foreign offices in 62 countries. With a budget exceeding 2 billion dollars, DEA employs over 10,800 people, becoming a Special Agent or Intelligence Analyst with the DEA is a competitive process. DEA agents starting salary is $49, 746–$55,483, after four years working as an agent, the salary jumps to above $92,592. Upon graduation, recruits earn themselves the title of DEA Special Agent, the DEA excludes from consideration job-applicants who have a history of any use of narcotics or illicit drugs. Investigation usually includes a polygraph test for special-agent, diversion-investigator, exceptions to this policy may be made for applicants who admit to limited youthful and experimental use of marijuana. The DEAs relatively firm stance on this issue contrasts with that of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the DEA Aviation Division or Office of Aviation Operations is an airborne division based in Fort Worth Alliance Airport, Texas. The current OA fleet consists of 106 aircraft and 124 DEA pilots, rapid Response Teams was decommissioned by DEA Administrator Chuck Rosenburg on March 2017 via memorandum

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Kiki Camarena
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Enrique S. Camarenas nickname was Kike in Spanish, and Kiki in English. From 1973–1975, Camarena served in the United States Marine Corps, after which he joined the DEA, at their Calexico, California, in 1977, Camarena moved to the agencys Fresno office, and in 1981, he was assigned to their Guadalajara office in Mexico. Camarena had also worked as a firefighter and police investigator before joining the DEA in Calexico. Camarena, who had identified as the source of the leak, was abducted in broad daylight on February 7,1985 by corrupt police officers working for drug lord Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo. Camarena was tortured at Gallardos ranch over a 30-hour period, then murdered and his skull, jaw, nose, cheekbones and windpipe were crushed, his ribs were broken, and a hole was drilled into his head with a power drill. He had been injected with amphetamines and other drugs, most likely to ensure that he remained conscious while being tortured, Camarenas body was found in a rural area outside the small town of La Angostura, in the state of, on March 5,1985. Camarenas torture and murder prompted a reaction from the U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration and launched Operation Leyenda. A special unit was dispatched to coordinate the investigation in Mexico, investigators soon identified Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and his two close associates, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo and Rafael Caro Quintero, as the primary suspects in the kidnapping. Under pressure from the U. S. A. to President Miguel de la Madrids government, Fonseca and Quintero were quickly apprehended, the United States government pursued a lengthy investigation of Camarenas murder. Despite vigorous protests from the Mexican government, Álvarez was brought to trial in Los Angeles in 1992, after presentation of the governments case, the judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to support a guilty verdict, and charges were dropped. Álvarez subsequently initiated a suit against the U. S. government. The case eventually reached the U. S. Supreme Court, the four other defendants, Vásquez Velasco, Juan Ramón Matta-Ballesteros, Juan José Bernabé Ramírez, and Rubén Zuno Arce, were tried and found guilty of Camarenas kidnapping. Arce had known ties to corrupt Mexican officials, and Mexican officials were implicated in covering up the murder, Mexican police had destroyed evidence on Camarenas body. A CIA spokesman responded that “its ridiculous to suggest that the CIA had anything to do with the murder of a U. S. federal agent or the escape of his killer. ”Camarena received numerous awards while with the DEA, and he received the Administrators Award of Honor. In Fresno, the DEA hosts a golf tournament named after him. The nationwide annual Red Ribbon Week, which school children. In 2004, the Enrique S. Camarena Foundation was established in Camarenas memory, Camarenas wife Mika and son Enrique Jr. Camarena is survived by his wife Mika and their three sons. Several movies about Camarena were produced in Mexico, and he is referenced in others, in November 1988, TIME magazine featured Camarena on the cover

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Guadalajara
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Guadalajara is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is in the region of Jalisco in the Western-Pacific area of Mexico. With a population of 1,495,189 it is Mexicos fourth most populous municipality, the municipality is the second most densely populated in Mexico, the first being Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl in the State of Mexico. It is a business and economic center in the Bajio region. Guadalajara is the 10th largest city in Latin America in population, urban area, the city is named after the Spanish city of Guadalajara, the name of which came from the Andalusian Arabic wād l-ḥijāra, meaning river/valley of stones. Other, more industries, such as shoes, textiles. Guadalajara, one of the most popular clubs in Mexico. This city was named the American Capital of Culture for 2005, Guadalajara hosted the 2011 Pan American Games. The city was established in five other places before moving to its current location, the first settlement in 1532 was in Mesa del Cerro, now known as Nochistlán, Zacatecas. This site was settled by Cristóbal de Oñate as commissioned by Nuño de Guzmán, with the purpose of securing recent conquests, the settlement did not last long at this spot due to the lack of water, in 1533 it was moved to a location near Tonalá. Four years later, Guzmán ordered that the village be moved to Tlacotán, while the settlement was in Tlacotán, the Spanish king Charles I granted the coat of arms that the city still has today. This settlement was attacked during the Mixtón War in 1543 by Caxcan, Portecuex. The war was initiated by the due to the cruel treatment of Indians by Nuño de Guzmán. Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza had to control of the campaign to suppress the revolt after the Spanish were defeated in several engagements. The conflict ended after Mendoza made some concessions to the Indians such as freeing the Indian slaves, the village of Guadalajara barely survived the war, and the villagers attributed their survival to the Archangel Michael, who remains the patron of the city. It was decided to move the city again, this time to Atemajac. The city has remained there to this day, in 1542, records indicate that 126 people were living in Guadalajara and, in the same year, the status of city was granted by the king of Spain. Guadalajara was officially founded on February 14,1550 in the Valley of Atemajac, the settlements name came from the Spanish hometown of Nuño de Guzmán

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Tony Plana
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Tony Plana is a Cuban American actor and director. He is well known for playing Betty Suarezs father, Ignacio Suarez, on the ABC show Ugly Betty and his family moved to Miami in 1960. He is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University and was trained in acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, UK. While he is known to an audience for his roles in feature films and television. He originated the role of Rudy in the L. A. production of the Luis Valdez play Zoot Suit, Plana has acted in films such as An Officer and a Gentleman, Three Amigos. He is known to PC gamers as the voice of Manny Calavera in the LucasArts 1998 adventure game Grim Fandango, in 2011, Plana guest starred in Desperate Housewives as Gabrielle Soliss abusive stepfather, Alejandro Perez. He also directed Witchs Lament, a Desperate Housewives episode in the eighth season. In 2011, he appeared in Body of Proof, in the episode Helping Hand, Plana teaches acting at California State University, Dominguez Hills and Rio Hondo College. In 2012, he served as a judge for the Noor Iranian Film Festival. Plana is currently volunteering as a spokesperson for Comprehensive Immigration Reform and he was the Keynote speaker for the 2012 LULAC conference in Coronado Springs Convention Center in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Won Satellite Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries, or Motion Picture Made for Television for his role as Ignacio Suarez, Ugly Betty, on December 17,2006. Nominations Screen Actors Guild Awards, Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble - Comedy Series for, ALMA Awards, Outstanding Actor in a Television Series for, Resurrection Blvd. ALMA Awards, Outstanding Actor in a New Television Series for, bravo Awards, Outstanding Actor in a Feature Film for, Lone Star. com

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Tomas Milian
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Tomas Milian was a Cuban American-Italian actor and singer, known for the emotional intensity and humour he brought to roles in Italian genre films. A student of Lee Strasberg, Milian studied method acting at the Actors Studio in New York City. Throughout the late-1960s and early-1970s, Milian established himself as a leading actor in a series of Spaghetti Western films, most notably The Big Gundown, The Ugly Ones. Face to Face, Run, Man, Run, Death Sentence, Tepepa, Compañeros, Sonny and Jed, Life Is Tough, following a decline in the popularity of Spaghetti Westerns, Milian transitioned to roles in poliziottesco films. He also appeared in films during this period, including the giallo Dont Torture a Duckling. After returning to the United States in 1985, Milian continued to perform supporting roles in productions, including JFK, Amistad, Traffic. Milian was born in Havana as the son of a Cuban general and his father was arrested and jailed, he later committed suicide on a New Years evening. Milián then decided to leave Cuba and pursue his wishes of being an actor and he settled in the United States to study at New Yorks Actors Studio and later became an American citizen. In 1969, he became a naturalized Italian citizen, Milian was bisexual, prior to his marriage to actress Margherita Valletti, he had relationships with both men and women. After starting a career in the United States, Milian went to Italy in 1958 to take part in a festival in Spoleto. He eventually decided to relocate to Italy, where he lived for over 25 years and his first film part in Italy was in the 1959 picture La notte brava. Although his voice was dubbed due to his accent, Milián performed his lines in Italian. He initially starred in movies and worked with directors such as Mauro Bolognini. After five years of making what he deemed intellectual movies, Milián was unhappy with his contract with producer Franco Cristaldi, needing money to start over, he took the opportunity to star as a bandit in a spaghetti western called The Bounty Killer. The film boosted his career, and ultimately resulted in his staying in Italy and he became a star of the spaghetti western genre, where he often played Mexican bandits or revolutionaries, roles in which he spoke in his real voice. As the spaghetti westerns dwindled, Milián remained a star in genre films. He starred with Barbara Bouchet in the giallo Dont Torture a Duckling and he later turned to comedy, playing the recurrent characters of petty thief Monnezza and Serpico-like police officer Nico Giraldi in a variety of crime-comedy pictures. Although his voice was dubbed most of the time by Ferruccio Amendola, miliáns inventive use of romanesco made him a cult performer in Italy

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Danny Trejo
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Danny Trejo is an American actor who has appeared in numerous Hollywood films, often as villains and anti-heroes. His films include Heat, Con Air, and Desperado, the latter with frequent collaborator Robert Rodriguez and he has appeared in TV shows such as Breaking Bad, The X-Files, and Sons of Anarchy. He also appeared in the spoof movie Delta Farce as the killer Carlos Santana who in the movie keeps getting mistaken for the musician, Trejo was born in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, of Mexican ancestry. Prior to his film career Trejo worked as a foreman in construction. Throughout the 1960s, Trejo was in and out of jail and prison in California, there are conflicting accounts of his prison chronology. By one account, his term in custody ended in 1972, by another account, he did time in a juvenile offenders camp. He recalled that his last prison term was five years, while serving in San Quentin Prison, he became a champion boxer in that prisons lightweight and welterweight divisions. During this time, Trejo became a member of a twelve-step program, in 2011, he recalled that he had been sober for 42 years. While Trejo was working as a drug counselor, a teenage patient asked for his assistance dealing with cocaine problems on the set of Runaway Train. While there, Trejo was offered a job as an extra in the prison scenes. Edward Bunker, himself a former convict and well-respected crime author who was writing the screenplay for the film, recognized Trejo, Bunker, remembering Trejos boxing skills, offered him $320 per day to train Eric Roberts, one of the movies stars, for a boxing scene. Director Andrei Konchalovsky liked Trejos work and decided to offer him a role in the film as a boxer. It has been misreported that Trejo was actually serving time in the prison during filming. Since then, Trejo has become an actor in both films and television, appearing in five or more movies per year, in various genres. Trejo is known for his distinctive appearance, in addition to his heavily lined face, scarred from cystic acne and a brawl, and the long mustache he usually sports, he has displayed the large tattoo on his chest for many roles. He also appeared in a Season 2 episode of Desperate Housewives and he voiced the character Enrique on King of the Hill, and Octavios character on that show is based on his appearance. His role on King of the Hill was referred to in the HBO series Unscripted, where he had a cameo appearance. He also made guest appearances, as Tortuga, in the noted series Breaking Bad in 2009 and 2010, most notably in the episode Negro y Azul, in 2008 Trejo portrayed a Mexican bartender in the daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless

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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze

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Traffic (2000 film)
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Traffic is a 2000 American crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Stephen Gaghan. It explores the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives, users, enforcers, politicians and their stories are edited together throughout the film, although some of the characters do not meet each other. The film is an adaptation of the 1989 British Channel 4 television series Traffik, 20th Century Fox, the original financiers of the film, demanded that Harrison Ford play a leading role and that significant changes to the screenplay be made. USA Films, however, liked the project from the start, Soderbergh operated the camera himself and adopted a distinctive cinematography tint for each story so that audiences could tell them apart. It was also a success with a worldwide box-office revenue total of $207.5 million. In 2004, USA Network ran a miniseries—also called Traffic—based on this film, in Mexico, police officer Javier Rodriguez and his partner Manolo Sanchez stop a drug transport and arrest the couriers. Their arrest is interrupted by General Salazar, a high-ranking Mexican official who decides to hire Javier, Salazar instructs him to apprehend Francisco Flores, a hitman for the Tijuana Cartel, headed by the Obregón brothers. Back in Tijuana, Flores, under torture, gives Salazar the names of important members of the Obregón cartel, who are arrested. Javier and Salazars efforts begin to cripple the Obregón brothers cocaine outfit, but Javier soon discovers Salazar is a pawn for the Juárez Cartel, the rival of the Obregón brothers. That entire portion of the Mexican anti-drug campaign is a fraud, javiers partner Sanchez attempts to sell the information of Salazars true affiliation to the DEA but is killed for his betrayal. Javier, who can no longer working for Salazar, decides to make a deal with the DEA. In exchange for his testimony, Javier requests electricity in his neighborhood so the youngsters can play baseball at night rather than be tempted by street gangs, Salazars secrets are revealed to the public, and he is arrested and is shown suffering probable torture in prison. Javier explains to the media about the corruption in the police force. In Mexico, Javier watches as children play baseball at night in their new stadium, meanwhile, Robert Wakefield, a conservative Ohio judge, is appointed to head the Presidents Office of National Drug Control Policy, known colloquially as the drug czar. Robert is warned by his predecessor and several politicians that the War on Drugs is unwinnable. Roberts daughter, Caroline, a student, has been using cocaine, methamphetamine. Caroline, Seth, and Vanessa are all arrested when a fellow student overdoses on drugs, as Robert and his wife Barbara struggle to deal with the problem, Robert discovers that Barbara has known about their daughters involvement with drugs for over six months. Robert realizes his daughter Caroline is an addict and is caught between his demanding new position and difficult family life

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The New York Times
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18,1851, by The New York Times Company. The New York Times has won 119 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, the papers print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind The Wall Street Journal, and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the US. The New York Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation, following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million. Nicknamed The Gray Lady, The New York Times has long been regarded within the industry as a newspaper of record. The New York Times international version, formerly the International Herald Tribune, is now called the New York Times International Edition, the papers motto, All the News Thats Fit to Print, appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page. On Sunday, The New York Times is supplemented by the Sunday Review, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine and T, some other early investors of the company were Edwin B. Morgan and Edward B. We do not believe that everything in Society is either right or exactly wrong, —what is good we desire to preserve and improve, —what is evil, to exterminate. In 1852, the started a western division, The Times of California that arrived whenever a mail boat got to California. However, when local California newspapers came into prominence, the effort failed, the newspaper shortened its name to The New-York Times in 1857. It dropped the hyphen in the city name in the 1890s, One of the earliest public controversies it was involved with was the Mortara Affair, the subject of twenty editorials it published alone. At Newspaper Row, across from City Hall, Henry Raymond, owner and editor of The New York Times, averted the rioters with Gatling guns, in 1869, Raymond died, and George Jones took over as publisher. Tweed offered The New York Times five million dollars to not publish the story, in the 1880s, The New York Times transitioned gradually from editorially supporting Republican Party candidates to becoming more politically independent and analytical. In 1884, the paper supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in his first presidential campaign, while this move cost The New York Times readership among its more progressive and Republican readers, the paper eventually regained most of its lost ground within a few years. However, the newspaper was financially crippled by the Panic of 1893, the paper slowly acquired a reputation for even-handedness and accurate modern reporting, especially by the 1890s under the guidance of Ochs. Under Ochs guidance, continuing and expanding upon the Henry Raymond tradition, The New York Times achieved international scope, circulation, in 1910, the first air delivery of The New York Times to Philadelphia began. The New York Times first trans-Atlantic delivery by air to London occurred in 1919 by dirigible, airplane Edition was sent by plane to Chicago so it could be in the hands of Republican convention delegates by evening. In the 1940s, the extended its breadth and reach. The crossword began appearing regularly in 1942, and the section in 1946

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USA Today
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USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15,1982, it operates from Gannetts corporate headquarters on Jones Branch Drive in McLean, Virginia and it is printed at 37 sites across the United States and at five additional sites internationally. USA Today is distributed in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, with an international edition distributed in Canada, Asia and the Pacific Islands, Gannett formally announced the launch of the paper on April 20,1982. USA Today began publishing on September 15,1982, initially launching in the Baltimore and Washington, on July 2,1984, the newspaper switched from a largely black-and-white to a color publication, featuring full color photography and graphics in all four sections. On April 8,1985, the paper published its first special bonus section, a 12-page section called Baseball 85, on May 6,1986, USA Today began printing production of its international edition in Switzerland. On April 15, USA Today launched an international printing site. On August 28,1995, an international publishing site was launched in Frankfurt, Germany, to print. On October 4,1999, USA Today began running advertisements on its front page for the first time. The paper launched a sixth printing site for its international edition on May 15,2000, in Milan, Italy, followed on July 10 by the launch of a printing facility in Charleroi. That November, USA Today migrated its operations from Gannetts previous corporate headquarters in Arlington, in 2010, USA Today launched the USA Today API for sharing data with partners of all types. On August 27,2010, USA Today announced that it would undergo a reorganization of its newsroom and it also announced that the paper would shift its focus away from print and place more emphasis on its digital platforms and launch of a new publication called USA Today Sports. On September 14,2012, USA Today underwent the first major redesign in its history, to accomplish this goal, Gannett migrated its newspaper and television station websites to the Presto platform and the USA Today site design throughout 2013 and 2014. On January 4,2014, USA Today acquired the book and film review website, on September 3,2014, USA Today announced that it would lay off roughly 70 employees in a restructuring of its newsroom and business operations. In October 2014, USA Today and OpenWager Inc. entered into a partnership to release a Bingo app called USA TODAY Bingo Cruise, USA Today is known for synthesizing news down to easy-to-read-and-comprehend stories. In the main edition circulated in the United States and some Canadian cities, each consists of four sections, News, Money, Sports. The international edition of the paper features two sections, News and Money in one, with Sports and Life in the other, atypical of most daily newspapers, the paper does not print on Saturdays and Sundays, the Friday edition serves as the weekend edition. USA Today prints each complete story on the front page of the section with the exception of the cover story. The cover story is a story that requires a jump

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Toronto Star
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The Toronto Star is a Canadian broadsheet daily newspaper. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. a division of Star Media Group, the Star was first printed on Toronto World presses, and at its formation The World owned a 51% interest in it as a silent partner. That arrangement only lasted for two months, during time it was rumoured that William Findlay Billy Maclean, the Worlds proprietor, was considering selling the Star to the Riordon family. After an extensive fundraising campaign among the Star staff, Maclean agreed to sell his interest to Hocken, the paper did poorly in its first few years. Hocken sold out within the year, and several owners followed in succession until Sir William Mackenzie bought it in 1896 and its new editors, Edmund E. Sheppard and Frederic Nicholls, moved the entire Star operation into the same building used by the magazine Saturday Night. This would continue until Joseph E, holy Joe Atkinson, backed by funds raised by supporters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, bought the paper. The supporters included Senator George Cox, William Mulock, Peter Charles Larkin, Atkinson was the Stars editor from 1899 until his death in 1948. Its early opposition and criticism of the Nazi regime saw the paper one of the first North American papers to be banned in Germany. He championed many causes that would come to be associated with the welfare state, old age pensions, unemployment insurance. The Government of Canada Digital Collections website describes Atkinson as a radical in the best sense of that term, the Star was unique among North American newspapers in its consistent, ongoing advocacy of the interests of ordinary people. The friendship of Atkinson, the publisher, with Mackenzie King, Atkinson became the controlling shareholder of the Star. The Star was frequently criticized for practising the yellow journalism of its era, for decades, the paper included heavy doses of crime and sensationalism, along with advocating social change. From 1910 to 1973, the Star published a weekend supplement, shortly before his death in 1948, Joseph E. Atkinson transferred ownership of the paper to a charitable organization given the mandate of continuing the papers liberal tradition. In 1949, the Province of Ontario passed the Charitable Gifts Act, barring charitable organizations from owning parts of profit-making businesses. It would continue to supply sponsored content to the CRBCs station CRCT, in 1971, the newspaper was renamed The Toronto Star and moved to a modern office tower at One Yonge Street by Queens Quay. The original Star Building at 80 King Street West was demolished to make room for First Canadian Place, the new building originally housed the papers presses. In 1992, the plant was moved to the Toronto Star Press Centre at the Highway 407 &400 interchange in Vaughan. In September 2002, the logo was changed, and The was dropped from the papers, during the 2003 blackout, the Star printed the paper at a press in Welland, Ontario

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DVD
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DVD is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. The medium can store any kind of data and is widely used for software. DVDs offer higher capacity than compact discs while having the same dimensions. Pre-recorded DVDs are mass-produced using molding machines that physically stamp data onto the DVD, such discs are a form of DVD-ROM because data can only be read and not written or erased. Blank recordable DVD discs can be recorded using a DVD recorder. Rewritable DVDs can be recorded and erased many times, DVDs containing other types of information may be referred to as DVD data discs. The OED also states that in 1995, The companies said the name of the format will simply be DVD. Toshiba had been using the name ‘digital video disk’, but that was switched to ‘digital versatile disk’ after computer companies complained that it left out their applications, Digital versatile disc is the explanation provided in a DVD Forum Primer from 2000 and in the DVD Forums mission statement. There were several formats developed for recording video on optical discs before the DVD, Optical recording technology was invented by David Paul Gregg and James Russell in 1958 and first patented in 1961. A consumer optical disc data format known as LaserDisc was developed in the United States and it used much larger discs than the later formats. CD Video used analog video encoding on optical discs matching the established standard 120 mm size of audio CDs, Video CD became one of the first formats for distributing digitally encoded films in this format, in 1993. In the same year, two new optical disc formats were being developed. By the time of the launches for both formats in January 1995, the MMCD nomenclature had been dropped, and Philips and Sony were referring to their format as Digital Video Disc. Representatives from the SD camp asked IBM for advice on the system to use for their disc. Alan E. Bell, a researcher from IBMs Almaden Research Center, got that request and this group was referred to as the Technical Working Group, or TWG. On August 14,1995, an ad hoc group formed from five computer companies issued a release stating that they would only accept a single format. The TWG voted to both formats unless the two camps agreed on a single, converged standard. They recruited Lou Gerstner, president of IBM, to pressure the executives of the warring factions, as a result, the DVD specification provided a storage capacity of 4.7 GB for a single-layered, single-sided disc and 8.5 GB for a dual-layered, single-sided disc

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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database

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Poltergeist II: The Other Side
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Poltergeist II, The Other Side is a 1986 American supernatural horror film and the second entry in the Poltergeist film series. A sequel to Poltergeist, it features the return of the original family and it received mixed reviews from critics and did not gross as much at the box office as its predecessor, although it was still financially successful. It ended up making over $40 million against a $19 million production budget and was nominated for the Academy Award for Visual Effects, the film was also nominated for a Razzie Award for Zelda Rubinstein as Worst Supporting Actress. It was followed in 1988 by Poltergeist III, the excavation leads to the discovery of an underground cave by a ground crew. Its existence is revealed to psychic Tangina Barrons, who tells a friend of hers, Taylor, after investigating the cave for himself, Taylor realizes that Rev. Henry Kane, a deceased, insane preacher, has located Carol Anne and goes to defend her. The Freeling family—Steven, Diane, Robbie, and Carol Anne —has relocated to Phoenix, Arizona and now live in a house with Dianes mother, Grandma Jess. Having lost his real estate license, Steven is reduced to selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door while filing repeated insurance claims to cover the missing home, Grandma Jess is highly clairvoyant, and says that Diane and Carol Anne are clairvoyant as well. Grandma Jess later dies from natural causes, but not before telling Diane one last time that shell always be there if she needs her, Taylor shows up as Kane begins his first assault on the home. Unable to get in through the television as the family has removed all television sets from the home, Kanes minions are forced to another way in. The attack fails, and the family out of the house quickly. Taylor introduces himself and convinces them that running would be a waste of time since Kane would only find them again, and they return to the house, which Taylor has made safe for the time being. Kane himself shows up at the one day in human form and demands to be let in. Taylor congratulates him for resisting Kane, and then takes Steven to the desert and gives him the Power of Smoke, Tangina shows up at the house and helps Diane to understand Kanes history and how he became the Beast that is now stalking the family. Reverend Henry Kane led his followers into the cave because he believed the end of the world was coming, then left them to die after the date he predicted came, because he was so evil, Kane became a monster after death. Taylor warns the family that Kane is extremely clever and will try to tear them apart, one night, Steven lets his guard down and gets drunk, swallowing a Mezcal worm that is possessed by Kane, who then temporarily possesses him. He attacks and tries to rape Diane, who cries out that she loves him, Steven then vomits up the worm possessed by Kane, which grows into a huge, tentacled monstrosity. In this form, Kane attacks Steven from the ceiling, the Beast then decides on another assault, and this time, the family decides to confront the Beast on his own turf, the Other Side. The Freelings return to Cuesta Verde and enter the cavern below their former home, Steven and Robbie jump in after them through a fire started by Taylor

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What's Love Got to Do with It (film)
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Whats Love Got to Do with It is a 1993 American biographical film directed by Brian Gibson, loosely based on the life of Tina Turner. It stars Angela Bassett as Tina Turner and Laurence Fishburne as Ike Turner, the screenplay was adapted by Kate Lanier from the book I, Tina written by Tina Turner and Kurt Loder. Both Ike and Tina Turner assigned rights to Lanier for their lives to be dramatized in the film, the films soundtrack featured the hit song I Dont Wanna Fight, which went to number one in seven countries. In the United States, the film grossed almost $40 million, in the United Kingdom, it grossed nearly £10 million. Born and raised in the small Tennessee town of Nutbush, Anna Mae Bullock grows up in a family, with her parents later leaving and abandoning her. Following her grandmothers death, she relocates to St. Louis, reuniting with her mother, Anna Mae pursues a chance to be a professional singer after seeing charismatic bandleader Ike Turner perform one night. Later she wins her spot in Turners band after singing onstage, in time, an unexpected romance develops between the two after she moves into Ikes home. Shortly afterwards, they marry and begin having musical success together as Ike, the marriage quickly turns violent when Ike starts physically dominating her, leaving her no chance to escape. In public, Tina rises from local St. Louis phenomenon into an rhythm, Ike turns to drugs and his abusive behavior worsens. As Tina seeks solace in her life, a friend turns her on to Buddhism, eventually convincing her that reciting the Lotus Sutra. Tina grows increasingly confident afterwards and in a fight with Ike finally musters the courage to defend herself. Winning the right to retain her name after their divorce. She gets a break after meeting Roger Davies, who helps her realize her dreams of rock stardom. Despite Ikes attempts to win her back, Tina eventually prevails and finds solo success, halle Berry, Robin Givens, Pam Grier, Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, and Vanessa L. Williams and were all considered for the role of Tina Turner. Whitney Houston was actually offered the role, but had to due to imminent maternity. Jenifer Lewis, who plays Tinas mother in this film, originally auditioned to play Tina Turner, as well, Laurence Fishburne was offered the role of Ike Turner five times and turned it down each time. When he found out that Angela Bassett had been cast as Tina Turner, all the Ike and Tina Turner songs used in the film were newly re-recorded versions featuring Tina Turner covering her own songs. On Proud Mary, Laurence Fishburne sings Ike Turners parts, for Tina Turners solo recordings, the original masters were used, including the Phil Spector-produced River Deep - Mountain High

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The Juror
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The Juror is a 1996 American crime thriller drama film based on the 1995 novel by George Dawes Green. It was directed by Brian Gibson and stars Demi Moore as a single mother picked for duty for a mafia trial. Annie Laird is a sculptor who lives in New York with her son Oliver, Annie is selected to be a juror in the trial of mob boss Louie Boffano, who is accused of ordering the murder of Salvatore Riggio. Mark Cordell buys some of Annies artwork and then wines and dines her before she discovers he is known as The Teacher, Boffanos enforcer. Mark tells Annie to persuade the jury to acquit Boffano, or she, a frightened Annie convinces the jury to acquit Boffano. After the trial, Boffano questions whether Annie should disappear, seeing her as a loose end, Mark goes after Annies friend Juliet. After having sex with her, Mark reveals himself to be Annies stalker and he pulls a gun and forces Juliet to take a fatal drug overdose. Mark boasts of Juliets murder to Eddie, who works for Boffano. To ensure her sons safety, Annie hides Oliver in the village of Tui Cuch, the prosecutor, who figured out Annie was threatened, wants Annie to turn states witness so they can go after Mark, who now plans to take over Boffanos empire. Annie convinces the prosecutor to let her wear a wire in a meeting with Mark. Annie removes the wire and gives it to Eddie, insinuating she, Annie then succeeds in getting Mark to incriminate himself in a boastful rant about his ambitions, which she tapes on a hidden tape recorder. She uses the tape to tip off Boffano, who schedules a meeting with Mark, Boffanos plan backfires when Mark kills both Boffano and his son Joseph, along with their henchmen. Mark, furious at Annies betrayal, calls her, revealing his intention to travel to Guatemala to kill Oliver, Annie travels to Guatemala where there is a showdown with Mark. He chases Oliver into a structure, where locals shoot Mark, Annie, also armed with a pistol, fires six more shots, making sure Mark is dead after he tries to shoot Annie with a gun pulled from his ankle holster. It holds a 15% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Moore won a joint Razzie Award for Worst Actress for both her performance in this film and in Striptease. The Juror at the Internet Movie Database The Juror at AllMovie The Juror at Box Office Mojo The Juror at Rotten Tomatoes The Juror at Movieweb

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Still Crazy
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The film focuses on the personal lives of the band members and those closest to them, and their individual experiences with approaching middle-age and the success that eluded them. It was nominated for two Golden Globes in 1999, the band Strange Fruit performs at the 1977 Wisbech Rock Festival. Hughie Case tells how, due to the pursuit of fame, fortune and fornication –, after various issues, the band prematurely ends their performance, frustrated over competing egos and various members lack of self control. Tony quickly tracks down Karen Knowles, the bands original runaround-girl, initially reluctant, she is inspired to return to the band after finding memorabilia. She insists on being the manager, and Tony agrees. Though he claims to be working on an album, Simms has not released anything in almost ten years. The band meets up at the Red Lion pub to discuss the reunion, everyone expects Brian Lovell, the bands lead guitarist, to be there. Karen says she was unable to find him but learned he donated all his royalties to charity. Their roadie, Hughie, turns up during their first rehearsal to resume his original role, Ray insists on playing guitar but is convinced to concentrate on singing. They find a replacement for Brian in young Luke Shand, a talented guitarist who remains unaware of the bands internal tensions. Following a warm up tour of Europe, Karen negotiates for the rights to their back catalogue and their initial performances are poorly received. Les, Beano, and Hughie hold little hope for the band, believing Keith, Tony makes advances on Karen, but she resists due to her attachment to Brian. At one of their gigs, Rays over-the-top ideas backfire, and Les, following a confrontation with Les, Ray has a nervous breakdown, exacerbated by turning 50. Ray leaves the gig, buys drugs, and falls into a canal, karens daughter rescues him, and Rays wife blames Karen for his troubles. Following an angry reaction from the townspeople over the volume levels, Les and Ray make up, and Ray says he received a positive message from Brians ghost. The bus breaks down, and Karen confronts the band about their lack of confidence, when the band meet a girl wearing a Strange Fruit tour T-shirt that belonged to her father, they take it as another positive omen. The next few shows go without incident and are well-received, the band slightly more optimistic. Following a record deal, the records a new song written and sung by Les

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Columbo
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Columbo is an American television series starring Peter Falk as Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The plot revolves around how a perpetrator whose identity is known to the audience will finally be caught. Columbo is a police detective of Italian descent whose clothes are disheveled and whose trademarks include wearing a rumpled, beige raincoat over his suit. He is consistently underestimated by his suspects who, while initially reassured and distracted by his circumstantial speech, despite his unassuming appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he is extremely intelligent and shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for a conviction. His formidable eye for detail and relentlessly dedicated approach, often become clear to the only late in the story line. The episodes are all movie-length, between 73 and 100 minutes long, and have been broadcast in forty-four countries, in 2012, the program was chosen as the third-best cop or legal show on Best in TV, The Greatest TV Shows of Our Time. In 2013, TV Guide included it in its list of The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time, also in 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked it No.57 in the list of 101 Best Written TV Series. After two pilot episodes, the originally aired on NBC from 1971 to 1978 as one of the rotating programs of The NBC Mystery Movie. Columbo then aired less regularly on ABC beginning in 1989 under the umbrella of The ABC Mystery Movie, the last film was broadcast in 2003 as part of ABC Thursday Night at the Movies. In almost every episode the audience sees the crime unfold at the beginning and knows the identity of the culprit, once Columbo enters the story, viewers watch him solve the case by sifting through the contradictions between the truth and the version presented to him by the killer. This style of mystery is sometimes referred to as a howcatchem, episodes tend to be driven by their characters, the audience observing the criminals reaction to Columbos increasingly intrusive presence. In some cases, the arrogance and dismissive attitude allow Columbo to manipulate his suspects into self-incrimination. While details of the actions are shown to the viewer, Columbos true thoughts. Columbo generally maintains a relationship with the murderer until the end. The point at which the detective first begins to suspect the murderer is not revealed. Each case is concluded in a similar style, with Columbo dropping any pretense of uncertainty. Following the killers reaction, the episode ends with the killer confessing or quietly submitting to arrest. There are few attempts to deceive the viewer or provide a twist in the tale, other sources claim Columbos character is also influenced by Inspector Fichet from the French suspense-thriller film Les Diaboliques

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Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV series)
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Upstairs, Downstairs is a British television drama series originally produced by London Weekend Television and revived by the BBC. It ran on ITV in 68 episodes divided into five series from 1971 to 1975, set in a large townhouse in Edwardian, First World War and interwar Belgravia in London, the series depicts the lives of the servants downstairs and their masters—the family upstairs. Great events feature prominently in the episodes but minor or gradual changes are also noted, the series stands as a document of the social and technological changes that occurred between 1903 and 1930. Upstairs, Downstairs was originally an idea by two friends, Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins, for a comedy called Behind the Green Baize Door. It would focus on two housemaids, played by Marsh and Atkins, in a country house in the Victorian era. They soon added a family upstairs, as Marsh recognised Servants have to serve somebody, in summer 1969, they took this idea to Sagitta Productions, which was run by John Hawkesworth and John Whitney. They soon removed the element, changed the setting to a large townhouse in Edwardian London. It was first offered to Granada Television in Manchester, but they declined as they already had a period drama, called A Family at War, about to start. However, Stella Richman, the Controller of Programmes at London Weekend Television, saw potential, and in April 1970, the first series was commissioned. Characters were then developed, but when Alfred Shaughnessy, an old friend of John Hawkesworth, was called in as script editor, honor Blackman was short-listed for the role of Lady Marjorie and George Cole for that of the butler, Hudson. The programme took many names, including Two Little Maids in Town, The Servants Hall and it was called 165 Eaton Place until just before the production of the first episode when it was changed to Upstairs, Downstairs, following a suggestion from John Hawkesworth. Eventually the network had a space in its schedule at the time of Sunday nights at 10,15. They chose Upstairs, Downstairs, and with no promotion of the show, however, audiences steadily grew and the series became a hit. The stories depict the lives of the wealthy Bellamy family, who reside at 165 Eaton Place in Londons fashionable Belgravia, and their servants. The household is led by Lady Marjorie Bellamy, daughter of the Earl and Countess of Southwold, and her husband Richard Bellamy MP and they married despite the objections of her parents and set up house at 165 Eaton Place, one of several London properties owned by Lord Southwold. Richard and Lady Marjorie Bellamy have two children, James and Elizabeth, who are, respectively, in their early twenties and late teens when the series starts in 1903. In 1912, James ill-fated wife Hazel becomes the new mistress of the house, the original servant staff comprises the authoritarian butler Mr. Angus Hudson, cook Mrs. The first and second series span the period 1903 to 1910, in 1903, Sarah Moffat applies for a job as under-house-parlour maid for the Bellamy family, pretending to be of French nobility but soon revealed to be illiterate, English, and with no work history

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Roots (1977 miniseries)
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Roots is an American television miniseries based on Alex Haleys 1976 novel, Roots, The Saga of an American Family, the series first aired on ABC-TV in January 1977. Roots received 37 Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won nine and it also won a Golden Globe and a Peabody Award. S. It was produced on a budget of $6.6 million, the series introduced LeVar Burton in the role of Kunta Kinte. A sequel, Roots, The Next Generations, first aired in 1979, and a sequel, Roots, The Gift. A related film, Alex Haleys Queen, is based on the life of Queen Jackson Haley, in 2016, a remake of the original miniseries, with the same name, was commissioned by the History Channel and screened by the channel on Memorial Day. In The Gambia, West Africa, in 1750, Kunta Kinte is born to Omoro Kinte, a Mandinka warrior, while trying to carry out a task to catch a bird and take it home unharmed, Kunta sees white men carrying firearms, along with their black collaborators. Later, while fetching wood outside his village to make a drum for his younger brother and he is then sold to a slave trader and placed aboard a ship under the command of Capt. Thomas Davies for a three-month journey to Colonial America. During the voyage a group of rebels among the human cargo try but fail to stage a mutiny, the ship eventually arrives in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1767, where the captured Africans are sold at auction as slaves. John Reynolds, an owner from Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near Fredericksburg, buys Kunta. Reynolds assigns an older slave, Fiddler, to teach Kunta to speak English, Kunta, in a persistent struggle to become free again, makes several unsuccessful attempts to escape. Further, to preserve his Mandinka heritage and maintain his Mandinka roots, he not to change his name. An overseer, Ames, gathers the slaves and directs one of them to whip Kunta after his latest attempt to escape, for events that occur in 1775, between the above period and the post-Revolutionary War, where the next section begins, see Roots, The Gift. In 1776 the adult Kunta Kinte experiences serving as a slave and feels haunted by his Mandinka roots. Kunta tries again to escape, but a pair of slave-catchers seize him, bind him, Kunta meets Bell, the cook for Williams family. Bell successfully treats both Kuntas mangled foot and his wounded spirit, by 1780 he eventually submits to the harsh life, and he marries Bell in a ceremony, which includes jumping across a broom. Bell bears a daughter, to whom Kunta gives the name Kizzy, Fiddler continues to mentor and befriend Kunta, and Fiddler eventually dies at an old age in 1790. An adulterous relationship between Dr. William Reynolds and John Reynoldss wife produces a daughter, Anne, whom John apparently believes to be his own offspring. Missy Anne and Kizzy, about two younger than Anne, become playmates and best friends within the social limits of the plantation culture

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Holocaust (miniseries)
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Holocaust highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War II, such as Kristallnacht, the creation of Jewish ghettos and later, the use of gas chambers. Throughout the series, each member of the Weiss family experiences hardships and are led to a terrible fate, with the exception of Rudi. Dr. Weiss is a doctor from Berlin. After losing his right to treat Aryan patients, he is deported to Poland for being a foreign citizen and he becomes a member of the Judenrat for the Warsaw Ghetto. Josef is sent to Auschwitz along with his wife for attempting to save Jews from the Warsaw Ghettos liquidation process, at Auschwitz, he is assigned to road labor for Uncle Kurt, who is trying to save several Jews by having them work for him. Uncle Kurt then is punished for using Jews when he should not have done so, mrs. Berta Weiss, after her husbands deportation, survives with the help of Inga and her family. She is later deported to the Warsaw Ghetto to be reunited with Josef, Berta then obtains a job teaching at the school before eventually being sent to the gas chamber. Karl Weiss is arrested and sent to Buchenwald, later, a family friend of Ingas, Heinz Muller, has Karl transferred to Theresienstadt where he works in the art studio. He and the other artists secretly make pictures depicting the reality of the Ghetto, when the pictures are discovered, the artists are tortured by the SS and all but Karl die. Karl is then transferred to Auschwitz and put on the Sonderkommandos, subsequently, Karls health deteriorates badly and he dies in 1945, on the day Auschwitz is liberated. Rudi Weiss, having fled from Germany, goes to Czechoslovakia and they escape together to the Ukraine where they fight for years with Jewish partisans, led by Uncle Sasha, a doctor who lost his family earlier in the war. After fighting against both SS and Ukrainian soldiers, Rudi is ultimately captured, and Helena is shot and killed, Rudi wakes up in Sobibor where he meets Leon Feldhandler and Alexander Pechersky and escapes during the uprising. Rudi decides to travel back through Europe and find his family. Moses Weiss owns a pharmacy in Warsaw, when Josef and the Lowys are deported, he finds a place for them to stay. Like his brother, he is put on the Judenrat, after hearing that the SS is planning to kill all Jews in Europe, he starts a resistance movement. This movement fights against the SS in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and they are initially successful, but the SS discovers their secret hiding places and uses gas to force them to walk out and face the wall, where they are all shot. Karls wife, Inga, eventually sacrifices her freedom to him in Theresienstadt where he is commissioned as an artist. Desperately trying throughout most of the series to reach Karl in various camps, threatening to keep her husband involved in heavy physical work if she does not acquiesce to his requests, the SS sergeant rapes her

"Operation Somalia Express" was an 18-month investigation which included the coordinated takedown of a 44-member international narcotics-trafficking organization responsible for smuggling more than 25 tons of khat from the Horn of Africa to the United States.